Improvement in type-distributing machines



ftait gata cuantas s. wnsrcorr, or `ELIZABE K. RIDER, OF

` attent capitati.

TH, NEW VJERSE Y, AND

NEW YORK, N. Y.

Lctlcrs Patent N 104,236, lated June 14, 1870 rmtcdatczl lllay 9,1870.

The Schedule referred to lu these Letters Patent. and making part of the same.

To oil whom it muy concern:

tic it 'known that we, Gatinais '\\'i:s'rco'1"r, o1' the city of Eliza-beth, in the county ol' Union and State et' New Jersey, and ALEXANDER K. RIDER, 'if the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a. new and improved lllachine for Distributing rlype; and we do hereby declare the following to be a lull, citt-r, and exs-tet description ot' the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the acccnzpanying drawing, in which` Figure l is a side elevation ot our improved machine.

Figure 2 is an `end view.

Similar letters of reference imlicate like parts in the drawing.

The principle upon which our machine operates is that of picking out or distributing type by the ditference existing in theform of the various letters upon their faces; and the means used to effect this consists ot a series of matrices of the type-faces, in connection with a series of zig-zag grooves on the upper surface ol' an inclined rocking table, whereby each type is presented singly to each, matrix till the proper one is found, when the type, in consequence ot' dropping further into its own matrix than any other, slips oit the central xed plate on the vibrating table into its receptacle below.

To this end, therefore, our invention consists in a.

novel construction, combination, and arrangement ol' parts, whereby we are enabled to malte a simple and effective working machine for distributing printers type, as will be fully settorth hereafter.

lle enableothersslcilled in the art to make and use our/invention, we will `describe the construction and operation ot' the same.

The base-plate A'and standards l) E constitute lthe frame that supports the se'verai working parts of the machine.

The upper ends oi' the standards forni the bearings for the pivots 'y of the vibrating table B.

The surface ot' the vibrating table is con] posed of a fixed plate, b, provided with curved guides, c, and two hinged plates, ce, to which Jthe guides (i are secured, both guides so arranged as to t'ornr a series ol' zig-zag grooves across the vibrating table, intersecting each. other in the center, but closed by the matrices at the ends.

The rocking motion ot' the vibrating table is produced, andthe propcrmorcments ofthe hinged plat-cs c e are effected, by the oscillating plate O, pivotcd at 41 and furnished with a eam-groove, Cr.

A stud, provided witharoller, issec-nred tothe endplate)l of `the vibrating table .at 7i, and two similar ones are secured to the hinged plates at i and work through vertical slots in the end-plalej.

The -platcs F l, containing the matrices, are secured upon the hinged plates ot' the 'vibrating' table, inst back of the guide d. v(lne of these plates F is shown in iig. detached l'rom the machine.

.l'hey aro constructed to be detached at.y pleasure l'rom the vilnatingtable, and the matrices upon' their faces are made to conform to the size ot' type to be distributed.

A series ot'hoxcs, ll, is placed beneath the vibratingl table to receive the distributed typcand may be so inclined and connected with spouts or tubes as to allow the type to pass into proper receptacles placed at a distance from the machine.

llhc machine will operate as follows:

The' oscillating' motion given to the plate C produces a rocking motion ot' the table B uponits pivots y, so that each side of th'e table is alternately elevated and depressed.

The hinged plates c, pivotedat f, are also operated to drop below the level ot' the fixed plate b, at proper intervals, in order to allow the type held betweenthe guides-d to slide through the space between the edges otl the plates into the receiving boxes.

The pi, or matter tol be distributed, is introduced into the machine at x, as that side ot'.tlie vibrating table is raised into the position represented by the red lines in the drawing, so that a type drops into the space between the guides, in Athe direction of the arrow, cach time vthe side .r el' the vibrating table is elevated. The type thuscondueted tails with its f'ace againstv .the cdg'e ot' the plate l", containing the matrices. It is thrown alternately from one side of the table to the other at cach vibration, and falls successively into each space between the guides on the hinged plates c, unt-il it arrives at the space containing the matrix: corresponding to the letter-,upon its tace. The letter then drops into the matrix a. suliicientl distance to allow the bottom ot'hthe type to drop from the edge ot' the fixed plate Z1, upon which itrcsis, onto the hinged plate efand as that side of the vibrating table is raised the hinged plaie is caused to drop below the level oi' the plate l), to allow the type lo slide from the plate into its receptacle beneath.

The hinged plates c being made oi'a width less than the length ot' the type by the depth of the latter on its face, its cndis prevented from droppingoff the edge ot' the plateb until the lctt'er upon its face enters the proper matrl. Y Y K As the type may be introduced into the maehinein four diii'crent positions, provision' is made l'or itspropcli-,distribution in each case, two spaces on each side ot' the table being allotted to cach letter; for instance, the lowest space on the elevated side ot' the vibrating table, lig. .l and 2, isarrang'cd for the letter Il, in.

ALEXANDER right position, and the first space on the oppositeside for il in a reversed position the second space on the elf'ted side4 for the lette)I in a reversed position, and the second space on the opposite side for it in right position and so ou for each letter. i

All matter not distributed in passing through the machine, sue-h as type of diti'erent fonts, tvc., is discharged at y.

lt is'obvious that other mechanism than that llerein described and represented for giving motion to the vibrating table may be employed; and we do not wish to he understood as limiting ourselves to the mechanism described, but claim the right to modify it in any way to obtain the proper vibration of the table.

Having thus fully described our invention,

\\'l1at we claim, and desire to secure by Letters lutent, is- I l. The inclil-ied vibrating table, combined, arranged,

and operating substantially as described, and `for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the. inclined vibrating table ot the hinged plates c c, constructed, arranged, and operatingT substantially as described and speeilied.

3. The combination, with the. vibrating table and hinged plates c c, of t-l1ei'natri.\pl:ites F F, constructed substantially as described and for the purpose. specified.

4. The construction, form, and arrangement of' the guides d e, for automatically feeding the typo forward, substantially as described and specified.

The combination, with the inclined vibrating table, ot' the inclined receivers H, for receiving und delivering thc distributed type, substantially as described and-specified.

6. Distributing type b v means ol" matrices arranged to receive the corresponding letters, figures, and char acters as they are mechanically presented to the matrices, substantially as described and specified.'v

C S WESTCOT Witnesses for WESTCO'r'r: C. A. DURGIN, J os. C. CANNINC.. l

A.'K. RIDER.- Witnesses for Riosa:

` C. A. DURGIN,

Trios. W. DEAN. 

